display splash screen when assembly loaded in visual studio .NET, C#

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Recently I used a DLL library which displayed a splash screen when loaded in Visual Studio.
How can I do that? I need to be able to trigger some events when my dll is loaded in Visual Studio, from within the DLL itself.

Posted 4-Dec-14 11:22am

Mihai Pruna

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syed shanu 4-Dec-14 19:58pm

Loaded in Visual studio ?
Can you explain bit more with some example about your requirement.

Mihai Pruna 4-Dec-14 22:18pm

see the Devdept Eyeshot trial for example

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2014-12-04T18:07:00

Solution 1

Read the following :
Detecting if Code is Running from the IDE[^]

Posted 4-Dec-14 18:07pm

Mehdi Gholam

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Mihai Pruna 5-Dec-14 7:58am

Thank you, I knew about DebuggerAttached but not DesignMode!

Mihai Pruna 5-Dec-14 10:33am

...but, somehow, it always returns false even when is Debugger attached returns true.
ideally I would like for the event to occur when the assembly is actually loaded in visual studio, or during build, so that I can license the softare

Mehdi Gholam 5-Dec-14 10:50am

DesignMode only works when you open the form designer, for debug/release running you need to implement licensing.

Mihai Pruna 5-Dec-14 11:45am

but isn't the License manager tied to the same flag?
(System.ComponentModel.LicenseManager.UsageMode == System.ComponentModel.LicenseUsageMode.Designtime

I tried that and it didn't return true

Mehdi Gholam 6-Dec-14 1:28am

Like I said they only work when designing not running, you need to use LicenseUsageMode.Runtime when running.